Screensavers are more eye-candy than anything else, as screen burn-in really hasn’t been an issue for many years. All are free downloads and some even have a Windows counterpart. A bunch come with version for Windows users as well. Enjoy!

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Free Apple Screensavers For Mac

Things, however, are a lot better than they used to be. While you can buy games through the Mac App Store, major games retailers like Steam, Origin, Battle.net, and GOG all have Mac clients with better selections than the App Store. If the game you want is there and your Mac has the hardware to run it, it will run. Scriptures on 3.5' disks for old Macintosh computers (ICD Corporation). If you have an old Mac with a hard drive and you want to have the Old Testament, New Testament, Book of Mormon, D&C and Pearl of Great Price on your computer then this package is for you!

Nibbble is a free Dribbble screensaver for OS X 10.8+

Representing time as a hexadecimal colour value.

The Weather, City Edition is a beautiful screensaver for Mac OSX by designer Stefan Trifan that shows the weather for one city (Now, Today, Tomorrow) with beautiful custom weather icons, animation, time, and date. Using the Yahoo Weather Forecast, the minimalist design with beautiful typeface will greet you every day so you will know what to wear to dinner and whether to bring an umbrella to work tomorrow.

PolarClock 3.0 is now available as a screen saver for Mac and Windows, and also as a dashboard widget for OSX Tiger.

a nice flip-clock style screensaver for mac and windows.

The MovingPhotos3D screensaver sends your photos flying around in three dimensions.

Timebeat is another intriguing motion clock screensaver. Every minute of real time is numerically expressed with the ticking of hands and numbers revolving around its midpoint.

Throughout my career as a Mac Admin i’ve often been asked to enforce a screen saver. One environment required a screen saver to always be set, but to allow people to change the desktop background. Another required a screen saver to be set to the corporate standard at each login. This script has been used in both environments to great affect.

MCX is usually a good point to set the screen saver, but if you do not lock down the Desktop & Screensaver preference pane then these settings can be changed.

The below script has been updated & adapted many times since I 1st posted it on 18/11/2010 I have now tested this script & updated it for 10.8.

When trying to enforce that a screen saver is always in place, i’ve used this script by hardcoding the values of the variables & running it with an every5 trigger in Casper.

Old Mac Game Used To Be Screen Savers

When trying to set the corporate screen saver at login, I’ve used a LaucnhAgent to run a local copy of the script again with the values hardcoded.